Indigenous teenager dies at WA’s Banksia Hill youth detention centre

The WA corrective services commissioner says the boy called out from his cell before his death at Banksia Hill youth detention centre but the cries were ‘innocuous’ and had ‘no suggestion of harm’. Photograph: Aaron Bunch/AAP

An Aboriginal teenager has died at a detention centre in Western Australia after calling out from a cell prior to his death.

The 17-year-old is the second child to die in custody in the state in less than a year.